I hope we get the FFIX rat race like Freya with Burmecian & Cleyran as the two racial clans. I'd be sooo happy if this becomes the next race. I think it could become very popular. I even recreated Freya but as a viera. I'd be so hyped to see this race in FFXIV. Then the last definite race should be the FFXI Qu race. The Qu are nonbinary so they can just use one model with same height slider too. They can even have mustaches in IX so there can add masculine or feminine some options like that under the facial feature category in the character creator. They could instead have a masculine and feminine sub clans but just having a mono clan would make it easier for the devs. Perhaps Qu could just become a beastmen in a future expansion like Lupins, Qitari, Nu mou, etc.
I really like the way Yoshi-P approaches these interviews. The brutal honesty with the question of DC mass migration, "Well, the simplest solution is to just remove the option altogether. There are better solutions we'd rather implement but that's going to take time." Very good communication overall.
Great questions asked! I love how much technical detail Yoshi-P goes into in explaining how the glamour and equipment system works. This helps explain why a repair all gear button would break the game, because they would have to load ALL equipment at once, rather than a piecemeal approach that is better for the server.
He has explained this system over and over again, but the thing is...most players now know why the CURRENT system cannot do what we want it to... because he's explained it so often. However, we're asking for a NEW system. One that CAN do what we want, without bogging down the servers - WoW can do it, and GW2 has been doing it for years... to include the 2 dye system! Why not look at how they accomplish this, and do something similar, and throw out the whole glamour dresser system? Hell, even SWTOR does a VERY similar glamour plate system as FFXIV, and can let us set up these plates from anywhere.
@@christabelle__ tech debt and spaghetti code are very real problems. Once an engine is designed a certain way, it’s very hard to fundamentally change that. Add in the fact that their code runs on static servers, unlike GW2 which runs on AWS instances. They also have some restrictions on how much they can do due to console requirements being static, while PCs can be adjustable. Basically, I don’t expect any of these fundamental design issues to change without a brand new MMO with a new game engine and a new scalable infrastructure design.
@@christabelle__ That costs money and means working out a whole new game engine. WoW didn't fund other projects short of itself, GW2 the same. FF14, the money goes to SE to pay for its yearly mistakes and FF14 is given the crumbs plus w/e it can make from the mog station. It would be nice to just "throw the whole system out", but that takes time, money and man hours as it means rebuilding large segments of the game to clear out what is a minor inconvenience.
@@christabelle__ can possibly be done with a lot of time and effort. The question is what we as players are willing to sacrifice in content for that to happen.
I cant imagine how busy yoshi-p is but he takes time to do interviews with his devoted fans. That's commitment. I love how much this game has changed for the better and as a 1.0 player I can say this with certainty.
i think the asked questions did cover a lot of things i wanted to know about the new updates and the release of DT, along with somethings i didn't know i wanted to know. XD congrats on being able to meet him twice, and thank you for this video! :)
Awesome questions! As for the housing thing, I wonder if they could make "Yard skins" kinda like the fences and placards. Have just a small assortment, grass, snow, flowery.. would be really nice to see what they come up with =D
Great Questions... I'm so glad you were given this opportunity.. nice to see someone who is a positive influence in our community get the chance to do this sort of thing..
Good questions. His answers make me feel for him lol, It sounds like its harder to continue this game than to make a new modern one (if money was no object). I appreciate that each content creator has different kinds of questions.
About face accessories, what they should do is introduce a face parlour interface within the glam dressrobe, where you can customize make up, glasses, face accessories etc. And then you save that as one unit to be placed on your face.
Thank you so much for asking about the DC travel PF issues. I was worried that streamers weren't aware of it since they always have an army of viewers ready to fill their PFs lol.
I hoped the 2nd person could’ve phrased it as “if one of the alternative ways to access glamour dressers anywhere could be to have it in your own House/FC Houses (As an idea regarding how Yoshi answered it revolving the stress on server, what his idea is with that question specifically) since they’re thinking of increasing the server strength and then* find how they’ll implemented QoL changes to accessibility on dressers
they originally planed to have glamour dresser in the house but had to drop that idea cause of technical difficulties. it was a long time ago so I don't remember exact wording but it had something to do with the problems that would arise if someone moved or gods forbid removed the dresser while someone was accessing it!
I hoped the same and that they not phrased it like asking for "having a full glamour access anywhere in the world", which is with the current game engine obviously a problem right now. But rather asking to just give us more access points to the glamour dresser in the world than just those hand full of single player inn rooms in the big cities. Maybe by adding single player "changing rooms" to houses, apartments and the island sanctuary house. I don't mean by that to have a free placeable "glamour dresser" in those areas where also other ppl can enter, which seams to be a problem in game engine. No, just add a menu option to a door "enter changing room" to enter a single player room with a "glamour dresser" inside that is comparable to the existing "inn rooms". I think that could work with current game limitations and would still feel natural to use.
I think talent tree would be a bad fit for ff14 but i do like the idea of ap spending on your favorite skills to give them more ex versions like how upgrades already work now ,i play a lot of Korean mmos and awakening systems have always been a good sense of growth for me
oh my god they went through that entire first question and didn't actually answer the question. Meoni asked what's happening to existing face-style headpieces like glasses and scarves, if they were going to be converted to the new face slot accessories, and Yoshi-P went into the whole speech about memory allocation. None of that was relevant to the question. >.< Not sure why a followup to clarify wasn't asked because I really want to know this as well. >.
I actually think closing DC travel temporarily might be a great idea? I am on Maduin and our duty finder is so dead. I always attempt to do my roulettes on Maduin but end up going to Aether. I think as the DC was growing the travel was important. But surely the DCs are big enough now that it shouldn't be a problem? A lot of people I know don't even try to do their roulettes. They immediately go to aether or crystal. Maybe closing off DC travel would get people to understand you don't ALWAYS need to travel to get stuff done.
I wonder if it is the code for ff14 that makes these changes near impossible because WoW I believe has more players and a 25 year old engine and they implemented the transmog catalog years ago. I wish ff14 could do like Guild Wars 2 has done with making it all one catalog and you can use dyes as much as you want without having to have inventory slots with multiple pots of dye.
Amazing idea! Cosmetic talent trees might become boring along the expansions instead of adding new abilities, but would be a much better alternative to that of an actual talent tree. A normal talent tree in terms of balance would just add more work to their team, as it would be nearly impossible to balance, and by nature, people would just take the one that does most dps.
Ok... I really kinda wish a dev would see this comment. I think it would be EXTREMELY risky to add a talent or ability point system to ffxiv. I believe the reason FFXIV has such a good community is because the classes are so "cookie cutter." In other words, the class is the class. There is typically one right way to play the class and so there are no min/max builds... this game is just about optimizing your playstyle and hitting the right buttons while dealing with the mechanics of the fight. Don't misunderstand me... I inherently like the idea of more player choice in games, but this is the only MMO where I actually think it's the wrong direction because once you start doing that then you add another layer onto the mechanics for the min/max players to decide the "best" way to approach this mechanic and anyone who chooses to deviate from the best becomes "less than" the others. FFXIV would work very well with a "stat squish" for several reasons. 1st: it already has a scaling system built into the framework of the game, so the groundwork is already there for both players and devs to adjust to a stat squish 2nd: unlike many MMO's the skills are not awarded at a specific cadence. For example, a warrior gets a new skill at levels 1, 4, 6, 10, 15, 26, 30, 35 ETC... it's not like every 2 levels or anything like that.. so they have room to squish the stats without overloading the player with abilities. 3rd: The MSQ already drives the game... The MSQ could be used to restrict character level progression, so they could still make leveling relatively quick so long as you are to a certain point in the MSQ. For example, a stat squish could mean a new character would be capped out at level 10 until they get an airship ticket. You get stuck at level 15 until you finish Ifrit etc... All of HW expansion could lock levels behind each dungeon, so as soon as you complete a dungeon your level goes up by 1. I know some people would probably not like this because it's an artificial restraint, but in the long run something would have to be done to reduce bloat, and I don't really want to see FFXIV keep the level cap at 100 for multiple expansions... I think that would feel even worse than "gating" the leveling speed behind the MSQ. There has to be some give and take with whatever they decide to do to resolve eventual bloat, and I guess my whole point is that I think this game needs characters to feel like they are progressing in power as they grow, and I think the job progression should be along one linear path. The "Flexibility" of playstyles in FFXIV should come from the jobs.. don't add different playstyles into a single job. (Animations of course are different and that would be a fun way to customize your character, but it can't be JUST animations, you need to grow stronger too. Yoshi P says he doesn't like this approach because it's a problem he would run into again down the line, but let's say you squish ARR to level 30 and all other expansions to 5 levels each... then the max at EW would only be what? 50? New expansions (including Dawntrail) could stay at 10 levels each until they get to level 100 again, and then when needed, they keep the same level 50 at the end of EW and they only squish 4 more expansion down to 5 per level, so then you always have at least the 2 latest expansions at 10 levels per expansion. and the newer stuff from 10 levels down to 5. This would probably buy them another 20 years' worth of development while keeping the max level at or below 100. EXAMPLE: to lay it out - stat squish should look like this (for the next expansions up to 11) AR 1-30, HW Storm Shad & EW go from 10 per expac to 5 - so ARR to EW = 50 levels. Then you keep 10 levels for Dawntrail#7 50-60 8th expac 60-70 9th 70-80 10th 80-90 and 11th goes back up to 100 Now they hit 100 again at the end of expansion 11, Another stat squish could be applied as follows: ARR to EW stays at 50 levels. Expansions 7 to 10 are condensed to 5 levels each... So ARR to Expansion 10 would consist of levels 1-70... then expansion 11 (the one that was already out) would keep the 10 level range, 70-80, expansion 12 goes 80-90, and expansion 13 goes 90-100. This would be a plan for another 6 expansions (AFTER Dawntrail) while not allowing the max level to go over 100. That would be at least another 15 years worth of development time I would imagine.
I can never help but be in awe of Yoshi-P. Of course he's not the one hacking away at the code, making the graphics, or designing the encounters, but he does a very different and no less grueling kind of work. He has to be the face of everything. He has to take responsibility. He has to know all about the game, on every level, and answer questions. He has to travel the globe and meet the fans, and understand what the players are asking for. Sure, he gets all the credit, but he also gets all the blame. Only someone who truly cares about his craft can do this kind of job, and come off this convincingly to us devoted fans. I really respect this man. This is a real champ. You hardly ever see this kind of person in the games industry.
Agreed! You can tell he genuinely cares about the game and the players, rather than bending over to some executive with a pie chart. The game industry needs more people like him. Wishing only the best for Yoshi-P; he deserves it for all the hard work he's done.
What I love the most about this entire video is how Yoshi P genuinely cares about these questions. He was deep on dev mode brainstorming on how to address Meoni's housing question. I LOVE THAT
I've always loved that he takes all POV's in consideration. Producer, Developer and a player/fan of the game like he is. That's when you get a great game
15:14 - that was a great question; in regards to able to have some animation where our character is holding on to dear life. We did have an asset animation already in the final phase of that boss battle with shinryu in Stormblood when transitioning to the next stage
The idea of skill points that make each character's job a little different from the next player's is kinda cool. But in practice it would probably turn out so that everyone uses the same optimal build.
@@rikkupendragon8372 Yeah I feel like they could easily just make different grass items you could plug in when editing outdoors, just like your fence, placard, door, walls, etc.
As a Dynamis player, I can appreciate whoever asked about DC travel. And to hear YoshiP immediately say “The fastest solution would be to shut it down” was amazing. Interesting concept.
As an Aether player who doesn’t raid, I never really knew that DC travel was problematic like that. Shen asked a really good question and even Yoshi-P apparently considers DC travel to be a Pandora’s box. It sucks that it’s a problem without an easy solution (outside of closing the box).
@@LumiliasI started in 5.55 on Bryn, Crystal was never too lively in PF but it was POSSIBLE to find people in PF for any content, even Ultimates, before DC Travel. Nowadays it’s rare to even see unsynced EX Trials pop up, and current content is never done… it’s killed my play experience in a lot of similar ways to Shen as, why I am more casual, I do WANT to do high end content and eventually Ultimates over time as its own thing, even progging through Aloalo Savage at the moment. But because I cannot PF in Crystal, and because the static I’ve found is on Aether like 95% of other Statics and Raids, every single time I want to raid I HAVE to DC Travel. There is no “reviving” them via closing down travel either anymore, as a lot of Crystal and even Primal residents to mitigate this issue have just move to Aether, Aether has become purely for raiding to the point even queues for regular content are much higher on it. Shutting it down would not fix it, the damage has been done… the only hard fix would take that 3+ year solution, sadly enough…
The problem is that closing the box also hurts current statics. I'm from Aether, but several of our static is in Dynamis and I think one or two are from Crystal. Its unfortunately a lose lose situation for all
Yoshi often speaks english at events without translation, it just it cuts down a lot of confusion and easier for more languages to understand if he speaks in Japanese and have it translated
@@Volfur2251 I got that but did he have a translator for him from English to Japoneese or is he understanding everything cuz he’s nodding like he understands
Yes Yoshi speaks and understands English. Another content creator who did a media tour interview with Yoshi said there was a point where him and Yoshi was talking about minmaxing in games, and the translator didn't understand what they were talking about but Yoshi said he understood everything just fine. I think Yoshi is just more comfortable and articulate when he can speak Japanese.
Congratulations on this your second time with Yoshi P.!! 🎉 What an amazing chance! 🤩 Thank you so much for sharing this with us. ☺️ Hope you had a wonderful time! ❤️
So many great questions! If they do more with achievements, I would like to see more fun achievements added to the game, with less emphasis on grindy achievements. For example, I remember an achievement in another MMO I used to play (The Secret World) that involved going to a specific waterfall in the game and doing a handstand. The achievement text just hinted at the location without naming it. Regarding DC raiding, I like the solution of rewarding players for raiding on their home DC with bonus XP. Simple to implement and probably effective in restoring Party Finder viability on each DC. Ultimate raiders might still gather on one DC because that's such a small community.
Good questions! I was very happy with the line of questions in this video! It's good to know they were asked even though I hadn't invested much thought in them in particular. Great audio to digest over my morning coffee. Cheers!
Yoshi is answering his own concern. If DC travel is the issue for raiding and PF Then make it so if you Raid and PF with in your own home DC where your character originates then you get a bonus. No different to a Daily roulette as a role in need bonus.
Cross dc queue or moving every server to the cloud is the only solution. There's no reason to delete DC travel which they have been working on for years just to remove a minor inconvenience for raiders to hop back and forth. DC travel even allows for statics to be formed without needing to be in the same one. It's a net gain to anyone who doesn't use the party finder, and an inconvenience at worse for people that do. Of course people who move to another DC to raid do so because there will be more players raiding using one DC than there would be if it's spread out, so faster queue times are that factor.
@@Jay-mx5ky ya I have have no desire to remove DC or world travel. Tbh I didn't even know this was a problem. I don't raid at all. But that the population converges in the same place is honestly a natural and should be expected aspect with the way the game is made.
About the PF for raiding going on what Yoshi-P said maybe they could implement bonuses for using PF on your Home DC? It could potentially get around the DC travel issue. I think for short term that might be a good solution. (If they can do it that is.)
question 2 was the question thank you whoever asked that !and tbh i just hope and also think they are turning a blind eye to mods cause the things the mod community has come up with are life changing and AMAZING yeah sure stress and server limitation but just hope they keep the invisible friendliness with mods
sorry but this is kinda bad the muffled interviewer audio questions just doesn't work for me, there huge text but that doesn't really help it just cause I clicked on this expecting let it have play in the background while i do stuff. Might as well like read it on article later
The way they handle glamour is the most spaghetti code shit I've ever heard of. The excuse that all of the items in the glamour dresser are technically read as being held in your inventory is insane. That is on par with Diablo 4's crashes because the devs make the game read every player's inventory. An upgrade in server processing speed isn't what we need. A complete overhaul of how the glamour system works is desperately needed. Make it a collection system. When you've had it in your inventory, tick it off as collected. When you access your glamour dresser, refer to the player's collection instead of their inventory. Other MMOs have been doing this for decades and it is so much less server-intensive and doesn't drain memory and CPU like this.
Great interview, I hope they don't go as far as to close down the Data Centre Travel boarder posts.. especially as so many people are hoping they'll see the happy feedback about global meetups in OCE to expand not close down DCT.
Good interview. alot of good questions. Honestly I have no idea what I would want to ask him if I could. On a side note, I wonder if there is a japanese media tour? So there was one in germany and one in LA so what do the japanese do?
30:00 - I wish they realize they could spin up an instance copy the bare minimum data about the caracters there and return the results to the world server once the instance is done. That would probably help them develop tech for a lot of stuff.
He has explained this glamour system over and over again, but the thing is...most players now know why the CURRENT system cannot do what we want it to... because he's explained it so often. However, we're asking for a NEW system. One that CAN do what we want, without bogging down the servers - WoW can do it, and GW2 has been doing it for years... to include the 2 dye system! Why not look at how they accomplish this, and do something similar, and throw out the whole glamour dresser system? Hell, even SWTOR does a VERY similar glamour plate system as FFXIV, and can let us set up these plates from anywhere. As for horns tied to certain faces... once again, WoW used to have specific eye colors tied to specific faces, and manged to let us choose eyes independent of faces in one of their fairly recent graphic overhauls and updates. So why can't the system itself be overhauled to better handle something so small and insignificant as letting players choose horns for their face? A large part of why I won't play Au Ra is this reason. And man, a talent point system type deal? I'd die for. And EXCELLENT question about the grass in the housing changing... maybe per season!? EXCELLENT questions!
I love Shen for asking the DC Travel question, Dynamis has it particularly rough. My honest suggestion would be to maybe apply some bonus for queuing content on your home DC. One of the concerns with that from an FC mate of mine though is the fear that Statics and PFs would be toxic to players not from their DC, and would alienate them similar to how players were treated for playing certain jobs early in the expansion. I still say compared to shutting DC travel down or Dumping a bunch of raiders into Different DCs each patch, this would be the most viable option.
Thank you, Meoni and AeroViro for your time to ask the man himself :D I need to get his attention for PVP if there's a chance in his Live Letter stream because I got one small request xD It was nice to hear that he had housing items for outdoors in mind because I wanted more items to be placed for small ones too. I thought 20 was enough until the items we see that are out for every once in a while. If I see an increase on the item limits for outdoor, I'd LOVE to get a house again! Once again, thank you two for this content
I have a buddy who wants to play dark knight for the great sword, but his rp preferences are more in line with paladin/ knights. It would be cool if you could customize the colors of the effects of your abilities, similar to the glows and abilities in warframe.
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8:52 YOSHI LAUGHED THE SECOND SHEN SAID DONE WITH ADDING RACES LMFAOO
Moogle WoL confirmed!
I hope we get the FFIX rat race like Freya with Burmecian & Cleyran as the two racial clans. I'd be sooo happy if this becomes the next race. I think it could become very popular. I even recreated Freya but as a viera. I'd be so hyped to see this race in FFXIV. Then the last definite race should be the FFXI Qu race. The Qu are nonbinary so they can just use one model with same height slider too. They can even have mustaches in IX so there can add masculine or feminine some options like that under the facial feature category in the character creator. They could instead have a masculine and feminine sub clans but just having a mono clan would make it easier for the devs. Perhaps Qu could just become a beastmen in a future expansion like Lupins, Qitari, Nu mou, etc.
I really like the way Yoshi-P approaches these interviews. The brutal honesty with the question of DC mass migration, "Well, the simplest solution is to just remove the option altogether. There are better solutions we'd rather implement but that's going to take time." Very good communication overall.
Great questions asked! I love how much technical detail Yoshi-P goes into in explaining how the glamour and equipment system works. This helps explain why a repair all gear button would break the game, because they would have to load ALL equipment at once, rather than a piecemeal approach that is better for the server.
He has explained this system over and over again, but the thing is...most players now know why the CURRENT system cannot do what we want it to... because he's explained it so often. However, we're asking for a NEW system. One that CAN do what we want, without bogging down the servers - WoW can do it, and GW2 has been doing it for years... to include the 2 dye system! Why not look at how they accomplish this, and do something similar, and throw out the whole glamour dresser system? Hell, even SWTOR does a VERY similar glamour plate system as FFXIV, and can let us set up these plates from anywhere.
@@christabelle__ tech debt and spaghetti code are very real problems. Once an engine is designed a certain way, it’s very hard to fundamentally change that. Add in the fact that their code runs on static servers, unlike GW2 which runs on AWS instances. They also have some restrictions on how much they can do due to console requirements being static, while PCs can be adjustable.
Basically, I don’t expect any of these fundamental design issues to change without a brand new MMO with a new game engine and a new scalable infrastructure design.
@@christabelle__ That costs money and means working out a whole new game engine. WoW didn't fund other projects short of itself, GW2 the same. FF14, the money goes to SE to pay for its yearly mistakes and FF14 is given the crumbs plus w/e it can make from the mog station. It would be nice to just "throw the whole system out", but that takes time, money and man hours as it means rebuilding large segments of the game to clear out what is a minor inconvenience.
@@christabelle__ I completely agree with that. The reason they aren't going to is cause it's way too much work though lol
@@christabelle__ can possibly be done with a lot of time and effort. The question is what we as players are willing to sacrifice in content for that to happen.
Woke up to find all you sneaky creators gifting us with a plethora of videos! Scrolled past them all to find THIS ONE! Tysm Meoni and Grats!
I cant imagine how busy yoshi-p is but he takes time to do interviews with his devoted fans. That's commitment. I love how much this game has changed for the better and as a 1.0 player I can say this with certainty.
i think the asked questions did cover a lot of things i wanted to know about the new updates and the release of DT, along with somethings i didn't know i wanted to know. XD
congrats on being able to meet him twice, and thank you for this video! :)
Thank you so much for asking the housing questions! they where great!
I love that explains WHY something would be hard or might not work.
The media tour was in the biosphere? Wow, that's so cool! Have been to this place two times or so, what an exciting location (and very dawntrail-y).
Awesome questions! As for the housing thing, I wonder if they could make "Yard skins" kinda like the fences and placards. Have just a small assortment, grass, snow, flowery.. would be really nice to see what they come up with =D
Very good for Ishgard wards
Great Questions... I'm so glad you were given this opportunity.. nice to see someone who is a positive influence in our community get the chance to do this sort of thing..
Good questions. His answers make me feel for him lol, It sounds like its harder to continue this game than to make a new modern one (if money was no object). I appreciate that each content creator has different kinds of questions.
More mount animations being considered for development is really, really cool im so happy for that
About face accessories, what they should do is introduce a face parlour interface within the glam dressrobe, where you can customize make up, glasses, face accessories etc. And then you save that as one unit to be placed on your face.
Thank you so much for asking about the DC travel PF issues. I was worried that streamers weren't aware of it since they always have an army of viewers ready to fill their PFs lol.
I hoped the 2nd person could’ve phrased it as “if one of the alternative ways to access glamour dressers anywhere could be to have it in your own House/FC Houses
(As an idea regarding how Yoshi answered it revolving the stress on server, what his idea is with that question specifically)
since they’re thinking of increasing the server strength and then* find how they’ll implemented QoL changes to accessibility on dressers
they originally planed to have glamour dresser in the house but had to drop that idea cause of technical difficulties. it was a long time ago so I don't remember exact wording but it had something to do with the problems that would arise if someone moved or gods forbid removed the dresser while someone was accessing it!
I hoped the same and that they not phrased it like asking for "having a full glamour access anywhere in the world", which is with the current game engine obviously a problem right now. But rather asking to just give us more access points to the glamour dresser in the world than just those hand full of single player inn rooms in the big cities.
Maybe by adding single player "changing rooms" to houses, apartments and the island sanctuary house. I don't mean by that to have a free placeable "glamour dresser" in those areas where also other ppl can enter, which seams to be a problem in game engine. No, just add a menu option to a door "enter changing room" to enter a single player room with a "glamour dresser" inside that is comparable to the existing "inn rooms".
I think that could work with current game limitations and would still feel natural to use.
whoa! congratulations!
Shen: “cross DC PF”
Yoshida: “(darth Vader voice) Noooooo!”
Awesome interview, thank you!
tjanks meoni super cool interview
Great questions! pretty good interview
Nice. Give it time maybe next year we have a lot changes allready great Interview thank you guys x3
We need to have the glasses slot to include items such as false moustache from mogstation and possible beard items.
Yoshi p is so nice to listen to player feedback for improvement
With that last bit around the 30 min mark, sounds like it would be best to close datacenter travel, even if just for the patch point times.
I think talent tree would be a bad fit for ff14 but i do like the idea of ap spending on your favorite skills to give them more ex versions like how upgrades already work now ,i play a lot of Korean mmos and awakening systems have always been a good sense of growth for me
oh my god they went through that entire first question and didn't actually answer the question.
Meoni asked what's happening to existing face-style headpieces like glasses and scarves, if they were going to be converted to the new face slot accessories, and Yoshi-P went into the whole speech about memory allocation. None of that was relevant to the question. >.<
Not sure why a followup to clarify wasn't asked because I really want to know this as well. >.
I actually think closing DC travel temporarily might be a great idea? I am on Maduin and our duty finder is so dead. I always attempt to do my roulettes on Maduin but end up going to Aether. I think as the DC was growing the travel was important. But surely the DCs are big enough now that it shouldn't be a problem? A lot of people I know don't even try to do their roulettes. They immediately go to aether or crystal.
Maybe closing off DC travel would get people to understand you don't ALWAYS need to travel to get stuff done.
Yoshi saved the best for last ♥️♥️♥️
I wonder if it is the code for ff14 that makes these changes near impossible because WoW I believe has more players and a 25 year old engine and they implemented the transmog catalog years ago. I wish ff14 could do like Guild Wars 2 has done with making it all one catalog and you can use dyes as much as you want without having to have inventory slots with multiple pots of dye.
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Amazing idea! Cosmetic talent trees might become boring along the expansions instead of adding new abilities, but would be a much better alternative to that of an actual talent tree. A normal talent tree in terms of balance would just add more work to their team, as it would be nearly impossible to balance, and by nature, people would just take the one that does most dps.
I truly hope they never allow wings as an always on accessory. Characters are busy enough as it is with all their glowing weapons.
Ok Let's not sit here and pretend the reason Crystal is not a Raiding Hub is because of DC travel.
Ty Shenpai, DF is just as dead. Always having to travel to do most content....
Ok... I really kinda wish a dev would see this comment.
I think it would be EXTREMELY risky to add a talent or ability point system to ffxiv. I believe the reason FFXIV has such a good community is because the classes are so "cookie cutter." In other words, the class is the class. There is typically one right way to play the class and so there are no min/max builds... this game is just about optimizing your playstyle and hitting the right buttons while dealing with the mechanics of the fight.
Don't misunderstand me... I inherently like the idea of more player choice in games, but this is the only MMO where I actually think it's the wrong direction because once you start doing that then you add another layer onto the mechanics for the min/max players to decide the "best" way to approach this mechanic and anyone who chooses to deviate from the best becomes "less than" the others.
FFXIV would work very well with a "stat squish" for several reasons.
1st: it already has a scaling system built into the framework of the game, so the groundwork is already there for both players and devs to adjust to a stat squish
2nd: unlike many MMO's the skills are not awarded at a specific cadence. For example, a warrior gets a new skill at levels 1, 4, 6, 10, 15, 26, 30, 35 ETC... it's not like every 2 levels or anything like that.. so they have room to squish the stats without overloading the player with abilities.
3rd: The MSQ already drives the game... The MSQ could be used to restrict character level progression, so they could still make leveling relatively quick so long as you are to a certain point in the MSQ. For example, a stat squish could mean a new character would be capped out at level 10 until they get an airship ticket. You get stuck at level 15 until you finish Ifrit etc... All of HW expansion could lock levels behind each dungeon, so as soon as you complete a dungeon your level goes up by 1. I know some people would probably not like this because it's an artificial restraint, but in the long run something would have to be done to reduce bloat, and I don't really want to see FFXIV keep the level cap at 100 for multiple expansions... I think that would feel even worse than "gating" the leveling speed behind the MSQ.
There has to be some give and take with whatever they decide to do to resolve eventual bloat, and I guess my whole point is that I think this game needs characters to feel like they are progressing in power as they grow, and I think the job progression should be along one linear path. The "Flexibility" of playstyles in FFXIV should come from the jobs.. don't add different playstyles into a single job. (Animations of course are different and that would be a fun way to customize your character, but it can't be JUST animations, you need to grow stronger too.
Yoshi P says he doesn't like this approach because it's a problem he would run into again down the line, but let's say you squish ARR to level 30 and all other expansions to 5 levels each... then the max at EW would only be what? 50? New expansions (including Dawntrail) could stay at 10 levels each until they get to level 100 again, and then when needed, they keep the same level 50 at the end of EW and they only squish 4 more expansion down to 5 per level, so then you always have at least the 2 latest expansions at 10 levels per expansion. and the newer stuff from 10 levels down to 5. This would probably buy them another 20 years' worth of development while keeping the max level at or below 100.
EXAMPLE:
to lay it out - stat squish should look like this (for the next expansions up to 11)
AR 1-30, HW Storm Shad & EW go from 10 per expac to 5 - so ARR to EW = 50 levels. Then you keep 10 levels for Dawntrail#7 50-60 8th expac 60-70 9th 70-80 10th 80-90 and 11th goes back up to 100
Now they hit 100 again at the end of expansion 11, Another stat squish could be applied as follows:
ARR to EW stays at 50 levels. Expansions 7 to 10 are condensed to 5 levels each... So ARR to Expansion 10 would consist of levels 1-70... then expansion 11 (the one that was already out) would keep the 10 level range, 70-80, expansion 12 goes 80-90, and expansion 13 goes 90-100.
This would be a plan for another 6 expansions (AFTER Dawntrail) while not allowing the max level to go over 100. That would be at least another 15 years worth of development time I would imagine.
I can never help but be in awe of Yoshi-P. Of course he's not the one hacking away at the code, making the graphics, or designing the encounters, but he does a very different and no less grueling kind of work. He has to be the face of everything. He has to take responsibility. He has to know all about the game, on every level, and answer questions. He has to travel the globe and meet the fans, and understand what the players are asking for. Sure, he gets all the credit, but he also gets all the blame. Only someone who truly cares about his craft can do this kind of job, and come off this convincingly to us devoted fans. I really respect this man. This is a real champ. You hardly ever see this kind of person in the games industry.
Agreed! You can tell he genuinely cares about the game and the players, rather than bending over to some executive with a pie chart. The game industry needs more people like him. Wishing only the best for Yoshi-P; he deserves it for all the hard work he's done.
What I love the most about this entire video is how Yoshi P genuinely cares about these questions. He was deep on dev mode brainstorming on how to address Meoni's housing question. I LOVE THAT
bro naoki is like 50 years old and has better fashion sense than most people I've seen 😂😂 I love his style
I love that Yoshi-P is thinking like a game developer here. It shows a lot of how much he cares about XIV as a whole.
I've always loved that he takes all POV's in consideration. Producer, Developer and a player/fan of the game like he is. That's when you get a great game
All your hardworking paid off meoni! Super happy for you
I am so glad Yoshi P has acknowledged hat Housing District that decorates the entire district for holidays and seasons.
Big congrats Meoni! Had a feeling, super glad I was right 🎉
15:14 - that was a great question; in regards to able to have some animation where our character is holding on to dear life.
We did have an asset animation already in the final phase of that boss battle with shinryu in Stormblood when transitioning to the next stage
dynamis raiding server soon, i'm waiting
The idea of skill points that make each character's job a little different from the next player's is kinda cool. But in practice it would probably turn out so that everyone uses the same optimal build.
OMG! Housing columns off is a thing! I can't wait to get to that!
Amazing questions and amazing interview!
Not Meoni inspiring Yoshi P to consider garden/yard variations as additional options.
Yes! Would love to be able to change the colour of grass or change grass to snow for seasons would be great :D
@@rikkupendragon8372 Yeah I feel like they could easily just make different grass items you could plug in when editing outdoors, just like your fence, placard, door, walls, etc.
Would love to be able to switch between different indoor base style on the fly just like outdoors, from Riviera to Glade to Hingan etc
Watching what I can on my way to work! Grats to both you and Shenpai for getting to have this opportunity!!
As a Dynamis player, I can appreciate whoever asked about DC travel. And to hear YoshiP immediately say “The fastest solution would be to shut it down” was amazing. Interesting concept.
Crystal is for RP.
You could really tell it is something that has troubled him.
As an Aether player who doesn’t raid, I never really knew that DC travel was problematic like that. Shen asked a really good question and even Yoshi-P apparently considers DC travel to be a Pandora’s box. It sucks that it’s a problem without an easy solution (outside of closing the box).
@@LumiliasI started in 5.55 on Bryn, Crystal was never too lively in PF but it was POSSIBLE to find people in PF for any content, even Ultimates, before DC Travel. Nowadays it’s rare to even see unsynced EX Trials pop up, and current content is never done… it’s killed my play experience in a lot of similar ways to Shen as, why I am more casual, I do WANT to do high end content and eventually Ultimates over time as its own thing, even progging through Aloalo Savage at the moment. But because I cannot PF in Crystal, and because the static I’ve found is on Aether like 95% of other Statics and Raids, every single time I want to raid I HAVE to DC Travel. There is no “reviving” them via closing down travel either anymore, as a lot of Crystal and even Primal residents to mitigate this issue have just move to Aether, Aether has become purely for raiding to the point even queues for regular content are much higher on it. Shutting it down would not fix it, the damage has been done… the only hard fix would take that 3+ year solution, sadly enough…
The problem is that closing the box also hurts current statics. I'm from Aether, but several of our static is in Dynamis and I think one or two are from Crystal. Its unfortunately a lose lose situation for all
This is awesome Meoni!
2:48 Question 1: Facewear
8:15 Question 2: Glamour dresser improvements, Character creation changes
15:12 Question 3:Mounts; Special animations
16:57 Question 4: Plan for future Bloat (progression, levels, abilities, etc)
21:35 Question 5: Achievement certificates
23:30 Question 6: Cross-dc party finder
31:04 Question 7: Housing (textures, outside decorations, etc)
this man is such a blessing for us
His ability to answer the questions with logical technical answers is totally understandable. His answers to your glamour question was great.
Does Yoshi understand English that well that he’s able to answer the questions without translation?
Yes it sure does look like it to me too. When Meoni asked the question, he said THX! While he asked the question.
Yoshi often speaks english at events without translation, it just it cuts down a lot of confusion and easier for more languages to understand if he speaks in Japanese and have it translated
@@Volfur2251 I got that but did he have a translator for him from English to Japoneese or is he understanding everything cuz he’s nodding like he understands
Yes Yoshi speaks and understands English. Another content creator who did a media tour interview with Yoshi said there was a point where him and Yoshi was talking about minmaxing in games, and the translator didn't understand what they were talking about but Yoshi said he understood everything just fine. I think Yoshi is just more comfortable and articulate when he can speak Japanese.
@@leocreuu3254meo did cut out the translation to yoshi p some things he didnt need it but on some longer questions they did translate it
Congratulations on this your second time with Yoshi P.!! 🎉 What an amazing chance! 🤩 Thank you so much for sharing this with us. ☺️ Hope you had a wonderful time! ❤️
Some good insight into the spaghetti code. I feel for these devs. Hopefully they can improve the glamor system... plz.
So many great questions! If they do more with achievements, I would like to see more fun achievements added to the game, with less emphasis on grindy achievements. For example, I remember an achievement in another MMO I used to play (The Secret World) that involved going to a specific waterfall in the game and doing a handstand. The achievement text just hinted at the location without naming it.
Regarding DC raiding, I like the solution of rewarding players for raiding on their home DC with bonus XP. Simple to implement and probably effective in restoring Party Finder viability on each DC. Ultimate raiders might still gather on one DC because that's such a small community.
24:13 LOL, he definitely knows about this already. I cant imagine its easy to figure out from a technical perspective.
I think we heard you really well actually 😊. Ty Meoni for the vids
Someone should have said is there any plans to improve discards right now we have to do one at a time rather then multiple select
Waiste of a ? No1 cares about discards lol
@@one_eyeddd473well they obviously do, no need to be so rude lol
Good questions! I was very happy with the line of questions in this video! It's good to know they were asked even though I hadn't invested much thought in them in particular. Great audio to digest over my morning coffee. Cheers!
Meonis questions just pushed back launch…LOL!
This is so amazing! Big grats!! 🎉
Yoshi is answering his own concern.
If DC travel is the issue for raiding and PF
Then make it so if you Raid and PF with in your own home DC where your character originates then you get a bonus. No different to a Daily roulette as a role in need bonus.
Raid in your own Data center unless you just really want to
Cross dc queue or moving every server to the cloud is the only solution. There's no reason to delete DC travel which they have been working on for years just to remove a minor inconvenience for raiders to hop back and forth. DC travel even allows for statics to be formed without needing to be in the same one. It's a net gain to anyone who doesn't use the party finder, and an inconvenience at worse for people that do.
Of course people who move to another DC to raid do so because there will be more players raiding using one DC than there would be if it's spread out, so faster queue times are that factor.
@@Jay-mx5ky ya I have have no desire to remove DC or world travel.
Tbh I didn't even know this was a problem. I don't raid at all. But that the population converges in the same place is honestly a natural and should be expected aspect with the way the game is made.
It would have to be a really good bonus. The daily roulette bonuses are a joke, you get like 7000 gil for being in need.
Adding this to my list of videos to watch. Appreciate your work meoni!
About the PF for raiding going on what Yoshi-P said maybe they could implement bonuses for using PF on your Home DC? It could potentially get around the DC travel issue. I think for short term that might be a good solution. (If they can do it that is.)
Congrats & Thank you Meoni for always bringing us the news! Especially for the lodestone/website update videos where you read them out, helps a lot!
I'm so happy for you Meoni!! You really deserved this opportunity! ❤ Thank you for blessing us with your videos, mewmew 😺
question 2 was the question thank you whoever asked that !and tbh i just hope and also think they are turning a blind eye to mods cause the things the mod community has come up with are life changing and AMAZING yeah sure stress and server limitation but just hope they keep the invisible friendliness with mods
Man is living the dream!
sorry but this is kinda bad
the muffled interviewer audio questions just doesn't work for me, there huge text but that doesn't really help it just cause I clicked on this expecting let it have play in the background while i do stuff. Might as well like read it on article later
Excellent Meoni! Great questions! Really appreciate you going into some detail on housing and glamours :D
LETS GOOOO GRATS!
Thank you Meoni. Some really good questions were asked.
The way they handle glamour is the most spaghetti code shit I've ever heard of. The excuse that all of the items in the glamour dresser are technically read as being held in your inventory is insane. That is on par with Diablo 4's crashes because the devs make the game read every player's inventory. An upgrade in server processing speed isn't what we need. A complete overhaul of how the glamour system works is desperately needed. Make it a collection system. When you've had it in your inventory, tick it off as collected. When you access your glamour dresser, refer to the player's collection instead of their inventory. Other MMOs have been doing this for decades and it is so much less server-intensive and doesn't drain memory and CPU like this.
Great interview, I hope they don't go as far as to close down the Data Centre Travel boarder posts.. especially as so many people are hoping they'll see the happy feedback about global meetups in OCE to expand not close down DCT.
Those were INCREDIBLE questions.
Good interview. alot of good questions. Honestly I have no idea what I would want to ask him if I could. On a side note, I wonder if there is a japanese media tour? So there was one in germany and one in LA so what do the japanese do?
30:00 - I wish they realize they could spin up an instance copy the bare minimum data about the caracters there and return the results to the world server once the instance is done. That would probably help them develop tech for a lot of stuff.
What an honor for you to be there! Congrats man so proud of your progress
So glad to hear about the additional updates to characters on mounts. As well as the talk on DC party finder.
One thing ive never seen people ask is about the duty recorder and if they ever plan on making it better. Because currently its just bad.
I wish u can ask him if they can provide modern housing furnishing like those housing videos instead of using glitching to make the items
One of the best interviews to come out of the media tour. Great Questions
36:30 true visionary
I know he's just a businessman and he's doing his job but I love this guy like a father.
100% endorse closing DC travel. It was a mistake from the start.
Damn shen really a warrior main she knocked Yoshi-p health down with a critical direct hit with that DC travel question 🤣
>she
Meoni out here asking the REAL questions
His ideas for DC raiding seem to be the same solutions they came up with to fix bad PVP queues.
so happy you got to do this!
This was amazing! Thank you.
happy for you meoni!
Media in Tour in GERMANY :O damn
DAMN Shenpai with the HUGE character facial feature question!
He has explained this glamour system over and over again, but the thing is...most players now know why the CURRENT system cannot do what we want it to... because he's explained it so often. However, we're asking for a NEW system. One that CAN do what we want, without bogging down the servers - WoW can do it, and GW2 has been doing it for years... to include the 2 dye system! Why not look at how they accomplish this, and do something similar, and throw out the whole glamour dresser system? Hell, even SWTOR does a VERY similar glamour plate system as FFXIV, and can let us set up these plates from anywhere. As for horns tied to certain faces... once again, WoW used to have specific eye colors tied to specific faces, and manged to let us choose eyes independent of faces in one of their fairly recent graphic overhauls and updates. So why can't the system itself be overhauled to better handle something so small and insignificant as letting players choose horns for their face? A large part of why I won't play Au Ra is this reason.
And man, a talent point system type deal? I'd die for. And EXCELLENT question about the grass in the housing changing... maybe per season!? EXCELLENT questions!
ty for the vid and info :)
I love Shen for asking the DC Travel question, Dynamis has it particularly rough. My honest suggestion would be to maybe apply some bonus for queuing content on your home DC. One of the concerns with that from an FC mate of mine though is the fear that Statics and PFs would be toxic to players not from their DC, and would alienate them similar to how players were treated for playing certain jobs early in the expansion. I still say compared to shutting DC travel down or Dumping a bunch of raiders into Different DCs each patch, this would be the most viable option.
Thank you, Meoni and AeroViro for your time to ask the man himself :D
I need to get his attention for PVP if there's a chance in his Live Letter stream because I got one small request xD
It was nice to hear that he had housing items for outdoors in mind because I wanted more items to be placed for small ones too.
I thought 20 was enough until the items we see that are out for every once in a while.
If I see an increase on the item limits for outdoor, I'd LOVE to get a house again!
Once again, thank you two for this content
I have a buddy who wants to play dark knight for the great sword, but his rp preferences are more in line with paladin/ knights. It would be cool if you could customize the colors of the effects of your abilities, similar to the glows and abilities in warframe.